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Luxury beauty brand receives World’s Best Spa Brand recognition four times in a row

 

The Spanish beauty brand Natura Bissé once again confirms its status as a leading skincare and wellbeing brand as it receives this important accolade for the fourth year running. Experts from the spa and wellness sector and consumers have voted Natura Bissé the ‘World’s Best Spa Brand’ at the 2021 World Spa Awards.

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This is the fourth consecutive year that the Spanish beauty product firm has been awarded with this prestigious spa & wellness award, being the only brand in the world to receive this recognition four times in a row, which affirms Natura Bissé as the leading brand for luxury within the spa industry. Natura Bissé performs over 7.5 million treatments around the world every year. Its innovative rituals, based on unprecedented results and the incomparable power of touch, are combined with exceptional client service to create the most innovative formula that is capable of offering its distinguished clients unforgettable experiences.

Receiving this award once more, especially after many months that have been so tough for the spa industry, fills us with satisfaction and motivates us to continue exploring our creative essence and our boundless curiosity for creating experiences that are able to transform our clients’ skin and their emotions. This award is shared with all our partner spas, which have become genuine retreats for not just physical but also mental and emotional peace and wellbeing.” – Verónica Fisas, CEO and Managing Director of the Natura Bissé Group.

The World Spa Awards™ were created in 2015 to raise the standards of wellbeing in the tourism sector and to serve as a mark of quality and reference point for consumers. Each year, professionals from the sector and clients vote on the worldspaawards.com website for the brand they consider to be the best spa brand in the world, along with other categories, in a voting process that lasts 16 weeks, this year stretching from May 19th until September 8th.

On this occasion, the annual World Spa Awards presentation ceremony took place online due to the current travel restrictions in place, with a virtual presence from the entire spectrum of the industry, from hotels and spa destinations to wellness retreats and leading brands in the sector.

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“We have been overwhelmed by the exceptional quality of entrants this year. It is an encouraging indicator that the spa and wellness sector is rebounding strongly from the challenges of the past year.” – Rebecca Cohen, Managing Director of the World Spa Awards.

Natura Bissé is a globally renowned luxury skincare company. Founded in Barcelona in 1979, is now passionately managed by the second generation of the Fisas family. Natura Bissé received numerous awards including a three-peat recognition as the “World Best Spa Brand” at the 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 World Spa Awards.

With subsidiaries in Spain, United States, Mexico, United Kingdom and China and presence in 40 countries, Natura Bissé continues to expand around the world throughout the most distinguished luxury retailers and best-in-class spas.

True to its values of commitment to giving back, the brand helped establish the Ricardo Fisas Natura Bissé Foundation in 2008 to contribute to the  well-being of people in vulnerable situations.

NATURA BISSÉ IN THE WORLD’S BEST SPAS

Some of the partners Natura Bissé works with around the world have also been recognized at the 2021 World Spa Awards for adhering to the highest standards of quality and excellence.

  • Maldives´ Best Resort Spa 2021 – Iridium Spa at The St. Regis Maldives Vommuli Resort;
  • Indian Ocean´s Best Resort Spa 2021 – Iridium Spa at The St. Regis Maldives Vommuli Resort;
  • England´s Best Wellness Retreat 2021 – Grantley Hall
  • Ireland´s Best Hotel Spa 2021 – The Spa at Ashford Castle
  • Ireland´s Best Day Spa 2021 – Le Jardin Luxury Spa
  • Netherlands´ Best Wellness Retreat 2021 – Akasha Holistic Wellbeing at Conservatorium Hotel
  • Colorado´s Best Hotel Spa 2021 – The Ritz-Carlton Denver (USA)
  • Florida´s Best Hotel Spa 2021 – The Ritz-Carlton Spa, South Beach (USA)
  • Mexico´s Best Wellness Retreat 2021 – Esencia Wellness at Nobu Hotel Los Cabos (Mexico)
  • Latin America´s Best Wellness Retreat 2021 – Esencia Wellness at Nobu Hotel Los Cabos (Mexico)
  • Dominican Repubic´s Best Resort Spa 2021 – Eden Roc Spa by Natura Bissé at Eden Roc Cap Cana
  • Caribbean´s Best Resort Spa 2021 – Eden Roc Spa by Natura Bissé at Eden Roc Cap Cana (Dominican Republic)
  • Abu Dhabi´s Best Resort Spa 2021 – Nurai Spa at Zaya Nurai Island
  • Abu Dhabi´s Best Hotel Spa 2021 – Conrad Spa at Conrad Abu Dhabi Etihad Towers
  • Qatar´s Best Hotel Spa 2021 – The Spa at The Ritz-Carlton Doha
  • Qatar´s Best Resort Spa 2021 – The Spa at Sharq Village
  • Macao´s Best Resort Spa 2021 – Banyan Tree Spa Macau (China)
  • World´s Best Male Spa 2021 – The Ritz-Carlton Spa at The Ritz-Carlton Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)
  • World´s Best Hotel Spa Suites 2021 – Spa Suites at Address Downtown Dubai (UAE)
  • World´s Best Hotel Spa Brand 2021 – Iridium SPAs at St. Regis Hotels & Resorts
  • World´s Best Casino Hotel Spa – Banyan Tree Spa Marina Bay Sands (Singapore).
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Improve Wellbeing While Reaching Golf and Tennis Performance Goals

 

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Sensei launches golf and tennis optimal wellbeing programs.

Building on the success of the Optimal Wellbeing Program (OWP) that launched in February at the secluded Hawaiian wellness retreat, Sensei Lanai, a Four Seasons Resort, to enhance overall health and wellbeing, Sensei will now apply the same data and programs to two new sports performance packages for golf and tennis enthusiasts looking to improve their overall health, productivity and game.

Sensei Retreats, the first of which is Sensei Lānaʻi, A Four Seasons Resort, is where people come to learn the Sensei Way. Located in the most luxurious and inspiring setting, each guest’s stay is led by Sensei Guides and practitioners who hold degrees in their respective fields including exercise science, nutrition, and mindfulness, and is highly customized to help align guest’s actions with their intentions. Highlights include private wellness consultations, small indoor and outdoor classes, relaxing treatments in individual 1000-square-feet spa hales, island adventures and innovative dining guided by the Sensei nutritional philosophy. Additional amenities are expansive tropical gardens decorated with outdoor sculptures by renowned artists, state-of-the-art fitness and yoga facilities, tranquil lagoon-inspired outdoor pool, secluded outdoor onsen baths, nearby hiking, island activities and more.

“The launch of OWP was such a success that we wanted to expand the use of the data captured through WHOOP wearable technology and our on-site diagnostics as well as the guidance offered by our practitioners to help guests achieve and sustain their wellness goals,” said Kevin Kelly, CEO of Sensei. “With premier tennis and world-class oceanfront golf on Lanai, our guests will apply our data-driven OWP techniques to enhance their skills through a highly tailored itinerary designed by our Sensei Guides and sports instructors.”

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The tailored programs are not traditional tennis or golf clinics, but an integration of Sensei’s popular Optimal Wellbeing Program (OWP) with sports instruction. As with the original OWP, technology is leveraged to track and analyze each guest’s unique health data, as well as consultation with exercise physiologists, nutritionists and mindfulness coaches and other practitioners. That data, including a wearable device through a partnership with WHOOP, the human performance company, is then layered in with additional golf and tennis performance metrics through detailed video analysis and instruction. Guests are supported at every step from goal setting to daily practices with an integrated team of Sensei Guides, wellness practitioners and golf and tennis professionals who incorporate the Sensei philosophy — distilling the wellbeing journey into three simple paths for healthier living: Move, Nourish and Rest.

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Golf Optimal Wellbeing Program

Designed for intermediate and advanced players, the five-night program with Sunday arrival starts at $1,640 per night (single) / $2,480 per night (double). Highlights include:

Eight (8)-plus hours of one-on-one instruction with a golf instructor, which includes:
One (1) On-Course Assessment to assess pre-shot routine, mental approach, full swing, short game, putting, course strategy, rotational power, force output (internal), ball trajectory and club head (external)
One (1) Private Lesson to discover the importance and advantage of receiving instant and actionable feedback from the latest Trackman technology measuring club path, angleof attack, spin, club face, club speed/ball speed, carry distance and other key factors
One (1) nine-hole round with a golf instructor putting into practice learnings from prior sessions while implementing new techniques to fine-tune each guest’s course strategy
One (1) round of solo golf at the award-winning Jack Nicklaus Manele Golf Course (Golf Week, Golf Digest, Golf Magazine).

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Tennis Optimal Wellbeing Program

Designed for Level 4.0 tennis players (as ranked by the National Tennis Rating Program), the five-night program with Sunday arrival starts at $1,555 per night (single) / $2,310 pernight (double). Highlights include:

Four-plus hours of one-on-one instruction with a tennis professional and working with other similar-level 4.0 players, which includes:
Two (2) Private Tennis Lessons including video analysis to discover the importance and advantage of receiving instant and actionable feedback on racquet path, spin, racquet face, racquet speed/ball speed, and other key factors
One (1) Tennis Footwork Workshop designed to target each specific tennis stroke and discover how efficient footwork helps save energy, improve court coverage, and maximize reaction time.
One (1) Guided Match Play at the Manele Tennis Garden with the guidance of a tennis professional to learn how to play different styles such as aggressive baseliner, serve and volleyer, counterpuncher and all-court player.

Both programs include the same amenities as the original OWP, including luxurious accommodations, personalized support from pre-arrival through post-stay, biometrics testing, WHOOP wearable technology, private wellness consultations, restorative spa treatments, semi-private round-trip air transport from HNL and more.

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